'90 Day Fiancé' Recap: Jasmine Opens Up About Son JC Having Special Needs

Gino Palazzolo and Jasmine Pineda
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In a heartbreaking moment, Jasmine opened up about why she's so scared to have a child with Gino.

Jasmine showed another side of herself on Sunday's episode of 90 Day Fiancé, explaining why she's so scared to have a child with Gino. Jasmine shares two young sons with her ex-husband, Juance and JC, and plans to bring them both to the United States to be with her and Gino. She opened up about her youngest son, JC, who has special needs.

Earlier in the season, Jasmine's eldest son, Juance, appeared on camera for the first time but JC didn't. On Sunday's episode, Jasmine told Gino that she loved her kids more than her own life, but one of the hardest things she's ever had to experience was to accept JC's diagnosis. 

"You picture your son or your daughter, like, 'Oh, I'll do this, I'll do that,' and then, reality is different," she said. "What if we have a kid and he's also special needs?" 

Jasmine opened up to cameras about JC.

"It's very hard for him to communicate, he doesn't have a verbal language," Jasmine said. "But what makes it difficult to have a child with special needs is not the child. It's the people. It's very hard, it's not easy."

Jasmine relayed her fears to Gino about JC coming to America, given that people have been "very mean" in the past and had "no tolerance."

"I'm glad that sometimes my son doesn't realize what's going on but me as a mom, I do," she tearfully shared. "If we go to a restaurant and he's not behaving as a neurotypical kid, you have the stares, you have the ugly looks. You have, even the staff from the restaurant, you know? And it hurts me a lot. I don't know if I will have the strength to go through this."

"What if I cannot give you a neurotypical kid, Gino?" she continued, breaking down in tears. "I don't know Gino, it just scares me to death."

Gino comforted her, noting, "He's still a human being and we're going to take care of him, right? Can't predict it ... it's not your fault." Gino told cameras it was painful to see Jasmine so emotional and sad but he was helpless because there was nothing he could do about it.

"I just want to assure her that whatever happens with us in regards to children, whether we have a child or not, I will always be there for her no matter what and I'm not going to abandon her," he said.

Jasmine told Gino that he had such a kind soul and in a rare loving moment between the two amid all their intense fighting since she arrived in Michigan from Panama, they embraced and told one another how lucky they both were to have each other.

"And my children are lucky to have you too and if we ever have a baby, he or she's gonna be very lucky to have you as a dad," she told him.

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